WEBVTT 00:02.266 --> 00:04.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% AMNA NAWAZ: Russia has admitted for the first 00:04.533 --> 00:08.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% time that last week's sinking of its flagship cruiser the Moskva 00:08.400 --> 00:13.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% left dozens missing and one dead, although it still denies Ukraine attacked the ship. 00:13.266 --> 00:18.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% On the battlefront, Ukrainian officials claim Russian troops are redeploying from the southern 00:18.000 --> 00:23.000 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% port city of Mariupol to reinforce their new onslaught in the east. In the meantime, Ukraine 00:25.466 --> 00:28.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% says it sent a nighttime helicopter to deliver arms to the last Ukrainian forces in Mariupol, 00:29.800 --> 00:32.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% who are holed up inside a giant steel facility. 00:32.533 --> 00:34.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Willem Marx begins our coverage. 00:34.533 --> 00:39.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% WILLEM MARX: In the city of Mariupol, ghostly remnants of a relentless war. 00:41.100 --> 00:44.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% This is what Russia calls liberation, apartment blocks battered by shelling, 00:46.633 --> 00:49.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% devoid of residents, the only signs of life pro-Russian rescue workers locating the dead. 00:53.066 --> 00:56.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% They load remains onto trucks marked with Z, 00:56.500 --> 01:01.466 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% a symbol of Vladimir Putin's brutal invasion, the dead's destination, for now, unknown. 01:04.233 --> 01:09.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Today, a Ukrainian regional governor still seemed optimistic about Mariupol's future. 01:11.833 --> 01:14.466 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% GOV. PAVLO KYRYLENKO, Donetsk, Ukraine (through translator): I unequivocally believe that Russians 01:14.466 --> 01:19.200 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% can be defeated. They are not taught to lose, but they overestimate themselves. 01:19.200 --> 01:24.200 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% WILLEM MARX: The last few Ukrainian fighters are bunkered down in a steel plant by the sea. 01:26.300 --> 01:30.433 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% Russian forces say they will no longer try to storm that facility, but instead will besiege it. 01:32.433 --> 01:35.433 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% British officials say it's likely Russia prefers simply to surround it to free up 01:35.433 --> 01:40.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% their forces for operations elsewhere. On social media channels, pro-Kremlin propagandists embedded 01:44.100 --> 01:49.066 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% with the Russian army publish videos they say show troops moving east, away from Mariupol. 01:51.133 --> 01:53.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% But military analysts say Russian forces in the city suffered substantially, 01:53.933 --> 01:58.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% and Moscow may struggle to redeploy rapidly to other battle fronts. 01:59.966 --> 02:03.533 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% One Russian commander talked of fresh territorial ambitions in the south of Ukraine, 02:05.533 --> 02:08.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% suggesting a new access route to Transnistria, a pro-Russian enclave in neighboring Moldova. 02:10.033 --> 02:12.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% It's unclear if these comments reflect official Kremlin policy. 02:14.366 --> 02:16.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Back east, meanwhile, Russian troops continue their assault on the Donbass, 02:18.966 --> 02:22.500 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% overnight, a hospital near Donetsk damaged under direct shell fire. In the city of Rubizhne, 02:24.466 --> 02:28.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% broken boulevards bear the scars of conflict, a cultural center crushed by artillery. 02:32.533 --> 02:36.466 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% In a basement beneath it, a dozen of the city's residents shelter together. 02:37.933 --> 02:40.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Liudmila said she fled her home after the shells began to fall. 02:40.300 --> 02:43.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% LIUDMILA, Rubizhne Resident (through translator): 02:43.333 --> 02:47.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% It was raining. The roof was leaking. The plaster and wallpaper fell off, 02:47.633 --> 02:52.600 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% a constant draft. It is impossible to live in our houses, no gas, no light, no water. 02:54.600 --> 02:58.100 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% WILLEM MARX: To the north, in Kharkiv, emergency workers on scene at a public market 03:00.133 --> 03:03.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% smashed and torched. The city remains a top target for Russian rockets, 03:03.600 --> 03:06.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% leaving residents to deal with the daily damage. 03:08.233 --> 03:11.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Yuriy Guropaev said two civilians charred to death inside this vehicle. 03:11.833 --> 03:14.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% YURIY GUROPAEV, Kharkiv Resident (through translator): 03:14.400 --> 03:18.733 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% How is it different from Bucha or Gostomel? And we are told it's quiet here? How is it possible? 03:20.766 --> 03:24.266 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% Here are people burning. Here are two people are burning. Look, bodies. How is it possible? 03:25.333 --> 03:27.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% WILLEM MARX: Despite the bombing, 03:27.400 --> 03:31.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% thousands of Ukrainians plan to return this weekend to celebrate Orthodox Easter, 03:33.900 --> 03:36.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% like Mariia Litokh, who arrived today in Kyiv from Poland to meet her family. 03:36.800 --> 03:40.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% MARIIA LITOKH, Ukrainian Student (through translator): 03:40.233 --> 03:45.100 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% I am now confident that the world is aware that we are strong. It is important because just a 03:45.100 --> 03:50.100 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% few people knew about Ukraine. Now almost every person can show the city of Kharkiv on a map. 03:51.700 --> 03:55.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% WILLEM MARX: Home for the holidays, but for how long, unclear. 03:56.666 --> 03:59.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Tonight, Amna, despite advances by Russian forces 03:59.300 --> 04:02.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% on multiple fronts in the south and east, in cities like Kyiv, 04:02.700 --> 04:07.500 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% it's not so much about clearing up, as pushing back against that military aggression. 04:07.500 --> 04:11.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% The national flag is still fluttering behind me. Traffic has returned to the city center. 04:11.733 --> 04:15.900 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% And with the evening curfew pushed back until late, restaurants and bars remain 04:15.900 --> 04:20.900 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% open for customers, but just an hour or two from where we're standing, awful scenes of 04:23.300 --> 04:25.933 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% devastation and destruction in many directions throughout surrounding towns and villages -- Amna. 04:27.533 --> 04:31.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% AMNA NAWAZ: And the "NewsHour"'s coverage of the war in Ukraine is 04:31.100 --> 04:36.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% supported in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.